The Anti-corruption Court has canceled bail for city businessman and president Museveni’s personal friend and business ally, Hajji Hassan Basajjabalaba and sent him back to Luzira Prison amidst tears from his female relatives. Some of Basajjabalaba’s relatives were overheard as saying that Museveni is started witch-hunting him because he cooperates with some opposition politicians.

Chief Magistrate, Irene Akankwasa who in January had granted Basajjabalaba a cash bail of 60 million shillings on Wednesday rescinded her earlier decision.

Basajjabalaba is accused of forging a consent judgment which shielded him from paying 20.1 billion shillings in taxes accruing from his 142 billion shillings compensation for Nakasero city market.

Chief Magistrate, Irene Akankwasa at first granted bail to the beleaguered businessman, saying there was no evidence he snubbed Police summons over charges of forging a consent judgment, as the prosecution was alleging.

The magistrate said that he should be given chance to benefit from bail, but with stringent conditions and also ordered Basajjabalaba to deposit his passport with court.

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 Nabagereka says that it is normal for an African man to produce children from any woman of his choice but it is a taboo for a woman to produce outside marital bed.

Nabagereka says that the people who have been over the radio alleging that Nabagereka is not happy because the Kabaka got a child from another woman should stop misleading Ugandans.

“I love my husband the Kabaka of Buganda, I love the new prince he has fathered, and I love all the children my husband has and I also love all the children inBugandaandUganda,” a source in Bulange Mengo quoted Nabagereka as saying. Nabagereka says that she knows that her husband producing many children, especially boys assures continuity of the royal family.

Nabagereka says that the news of Kabaka Mutebi getting a child did not surprise her because the Kabaka had already briefed her before the matter went public.

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He says that the first week in 2012 is for moving to people to mobilize them to handle the cleanliness in the city while on 6^th January KCCA is to hold business committee aimed at focusing on how traders could run there businesses.

He says they are to tour markets and review there their renovation plans including for both tax parks and for drainage channels reconstructions, installing road lights and buying dust bins since all their budgets were passed out in this financial year.

Lukwago notices that all companies that are responsible for Kampala road construction and haven’t finished the work are also to be reviewed saying billions of shillings were passed in this financial year for them.

He cautions those misinforming people that the Lord Mayor is ceremonial saying such loose talk should be stopped before this year ends.

By Isaac Senabulya

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Mpuga told journalist at parliament that Matsiko was the minister of  information and national guidance a time when many UBC properties like land  and equipments  got lost. He cited an example of OB van which cost tax payers    1.8 billion shillings which also disappeared  yet on the local market it could have cost t only 180 million shillings.

He said that having been the minister in charge then; she is the first suspect to explain how the recovered mast found its self in a private station owned by her. Mpuga also wondered why UBC up to date has no board as a body, saying currently it’s the MD of UBC who is the board himself.

He challenged president Museveni to sack the minters since he has all along been saying that he is an advocate against corruption.

Mpuga says that parliament should use this opportunity to punish these ministers if they fail to resign.

Police yesterday  found a tower mast and transmitter  belonging to a government owned media UBC  being used by private radio called king based in Masindi district  and the radio is believed to be owned by Kabakumba.

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Mbabazi who had come to present a self defence before the Parliamentary ad hoc committee on the regularization of the oil sector says many people have branded him corrupt whereas he is not.

The Prime minister who had come with very brief written responses such as yes, No, I don’t know, you go and ask them, to the questions put before him, caused fury from some members of the committee, which forced the committee to ask him to take a 15minute break as they sorted themselves out.

Mbabazi says there was no merit in the statements of people who say he is corrupt because he sold his property to a willing buyer.

He says whoever calls him corrupt because of the Temangalo land transaction is an idiot.

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